Hamden will mark WWI centennial

HAMDEN — The town will commemorate the centennial of World War I on Sept. 21-23 at Town Center Park, 2761 Dixwell Ave.

The war began July 28, 1914, and ended with the signing of an armistice Nov. 11, 1918.

The event is sponsored by Mayor Curt Balzano Leng, the town Veterans Commission, Town Center Park Commission, and the World War I National Centennial Commission.

• Re-enactors depicting the 1918 Army Yankee Division will be encamped for the weekend, with trenches and barbed wire zones, a Fn. Model 1918 Renault U.S.A. Tank, a 1918 battlefield ambulance, and a 1918 New Haven police vehicle.

• A remembrance ceremony will start at 1 p.m. Sept. 23, with an honor roll of town residents who served and died, a military rifle salute, taps, remarks by Leng and state Sen. George Logan, R-17, and an address by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. Other local officials, veterans, volunteers and community members will also participate.